Directed by George Clooney, the pretty dismal Leatherheads is a screwball comedy set in the world of sports and newspapers in the mid-Twenties. Clooney plays a Cary Grant/Clark Gable figure attempting to make money in the early days of professional football in the unlikely town of Duluth in northern Minnesota. John Krasinski is the clean-cut college football star he hires from Princeton. Renée Zellweger (imitating Hepburn and Rosalind Russell among others) is the hardboiled, wise-cracking, sob-sister sent by her Chicago paper to expose Krasinksi's record in the Great War. The jokes are laboured, the plotting crude, the acting indifferent. The art direction and jazz piano music track pass muster but compare poorly with their evident model, The Sting.